Alden was originally a surname, that originated from the Old English given name Ealdwine. It is composed of ‘eald’ for ‘old’ and ‘wine’ for ‘friend’.
Alden is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Alden isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Alden ranks 630. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Alden. In the entire USA, approximately 10,380 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Alden. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Alden was originally a surname, that originated from the Old English given name Ealdwine. It is composed of ‘eald’ for ‘old’ and ‘wine’ for ‘friend’.
Alden is considered... a classic, serious and strong sounding and has a long history as a given name.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Alden annualy. This means that there have been boys named Alden who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Alden have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Alden even more than any other time: in 1916, it holds its present record at rank #401 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alden was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Alden has never been ranked higher than #401. In 2022, he rivaled the 575 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 462 boys named Alden were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Alden were born, there have been 116 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Alden is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Alden and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alden, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Dinosaur
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alden
Alden
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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L
D
E
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
L
D
E
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alden sounds like this:
